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BACKGROUND
Here’s some of what the Lonely Planet – Australia chapter Melbourne - Victoria has to say about Cape Otway:
“Cape Otway
Majestic rolling hills provide a postcard backdrop to the town, while broad, white-sand beaches dominate the foreground. It’s an ideal base for exploring magical Cape Otway and Otway National Park.
Cape Otway is the second-most southerly point of mainland Australia (after Wilsons Promontory) and one of the wettest parts of the state. This coastline is particularly beautiful, rugged and dangerous. More...

The Great Ocean Road begins at the coast south of Melbourne and runs west along the Southern Ocean to Portland, Australia. We hit Bell's Beach, a surfer town and the first beach we came to, before continuing on to Cape Otway. We camped at Bimbi Campground for three days while exploring this area, which turned out to be a huge highlight with all of the wildlife, rainforest, and coastal fun Cape Otway has in store. Driving up to the campgrounds, we spotted kangaroos in the fields by the side of the road and several koalas grasping branches...

3rd November
Cape Otway
Today we got on to the great ocean road trail up to Melboune. We managed to get lost in a few villages getting onto the road but then it was plain sailing. Although i hit a kukaburra and cried. We've spent weeks swirving for birds and mice but this one was just too close it would have been fruitless and dangerous to break for it as there was a car on the other side of the road.
We had a glimer of hope in Portlabd information centre when they told us yhey sometimes get Blue Whales in mid November when they have a...

Cape Otway region....and the LOVELY Apollo Bay....
Cape Otway Lighthouse...
Bimbi campsite - walkee talkee thing... and Very Noisy Koalas!
Also inland there are nice temperate rainforests and waterfalls, including the Triplet falls - although not much water in the waterfalls at the moment - even though it was raining when I was there. Maybe by end of winter they will be more spectacular.
They were pretty walks anyway.
Perils of driving my van up to lookouts is that it might start rolling backwards down the hill!!